Linda K. Hughes

Guide to the Year's Work

This past year brought many valuable contributions to the study of literary PreRaphaelitism, with detailed critical analyses often providing wider philosophic or cultural insights. I will begin this review by examining articles, book chapters, and a monograph that analyze the work of the Rossetti brothers, then turn to several articles and chapters on Christina Rossetti’s poetry and two books and several articles which explore the contributions of William Morris. Since Elizabeth Helsinger’s Poetry and the Thought of Song in NineteenthCentury Britain (Univ. of Virginia Press) includes chapters on all three major PreRaphaelite poets, Dante Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, and Morris, these will be discussed separately under the relevant author headings.